Description
Egon Schiele – Self-Portrait with Black Clay Pot, 1911
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Self-Portrait with Black Clay Pot, is an oil reproduction of the work he painted in 1911. The original is held by the Wien Museum in Vienna.
The painter in a dark smock
Schiele painted himself as a bust, in a dark, almost black smock, his head tilted to one side and his gaze passing by the viewer. His right hand is laid flat across the chest with the fingers spread into a level fan — a gesture that returns again and again in his self-portraits of these years.
The black clay pot
Behind the painter’s head, to the right, stands a dark earthenware vessel holding a dry branch with brown leaves. It is this object that gives the work the name by which it is usually distinguished; the museum itself catalogues it simply as Selbstbildnis, Self-Portrait. A small, brightly coloured framed panel hangs at the upper left, and a pale, almost empty field opens out on the right.
A horizontal panel, signed and dated
The panel is wider than it is tall, which is unusual for a portrait: the figure is pushed into the left half and the right side is left bright and open. At the lower right the work is signed and dated “EGON SCHIELE 1911”.
The original’s medium and format
The original is not a canvas: unlike most of Schiele’s work it is painted in oil on wood (on a wooden panel), and it is small — 27.5 × 34 cm (inv. 104207). Jane Kallir’s catalogue lists it as P 204. It is on display at the Wien Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oils on canvas and we paint it in the size you choose.
